A Central California man has been convicted of murdering five of his infant children within months of each of them being born over the course of a decade.
Paul Allen Perez, 63, was convicted Tuesday of four counts of murder and one count of assault of a child under 8 with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death, according to a Yolo County district attorney’s office news release. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole and is scheduled to be sentenced April 6.
Perez killed all the children between 1992 and 2001 in Northern and Central California, according to the release. The remains of one of the infants were found submerged in a cooler in 2007 and familial DNA determined that Perez was the biological father…